In defense of prescriptive labeling

Here I am, with a blog dedicated to exploring the commonly-encountered misunderstandings that lead to disagreements, and somehow I still haven't gotten around to describing my views on prescriptive versus descriptive definitions for categories of people. Since I see this as kind of vital to lot of current conversations, I think it's about time I wrote about this. Read more...

A word on politics, free will, and God

While I'm still on the subject of the whole social conflict between free-will and deterministic explanations for things, I now want to directly readdress one of my earliest posts, where I proposed (in the final section) that the two major sides of the American political spectrum are aligned with the determinst and free-will-ist mindsets. Read more...